Injecting illicit drugs
By: edited by Richard Pates, Andrew McBride, Karin Arnold.
Contributors: Pates, Richard.; McBride, Andrew, 1957-; Arnold, Karin.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing/Addiction Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Intravenous drug abuse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of injecting / Richard Pates and Jan Wichter; title: The eye of the needle : an ethno-epidemiological analysis of injecting drug use / Jean-Paul Grund; title: Pharmaceutical aspects of injecting / Jennifer Scott; title: Needle fixation / Richard Pates, Andrew McBride and Karin Arnold; title: Women and injecting / Rossana Oretti and Pim Gregory; title: Injecting in prisons / David Shewan, Heino Stöver and Kate Dolan; title: Hepatitis C associated with injecting drug use / Nick Crofts; title: HIV and injecting drug use / Robert Heimer; title: Odde commotions : some other health consequences of injecting / Andrew McBride and Jan Wichter; title: Transitions to and from injecting / Matthew Southwell; title: Safer injecting : individual harm reduction advice / Helen Williams and Mark Norman; title: Overdose : prevalence, predictors, and prevention / Trudi Petersen and David Best; title: Supervised injecting rooms / Robert Haemig and Ingrid van Beek; title: Injecting drugs: the user's perspective / Jimmy Dorabjee.